HARD PUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hard put mean? 

• HARD PUT (adjective)
  The adjective HARD PUT has 1 sense:

1. facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty

  Familiarity information: HARD PUT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARD PUT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty

Synonyms:

distressed; hard-pressed; hard put; in a bad way

Context example:

found themselves in a bad way financially

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

 Context examples 

I’m hard put to it to stand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he must have been hard put to it when Miss Burnet broke away.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our friend, the doctor, was hard put to it when he wrote this.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As a result, having learned the lesson well, White Fang was hard put whenever he passed the cross-roads saloon.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Your man has not come on quite as well as you had expected in his training, and you are hard put to it to invent an excuse.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)